unlawfulbooger

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[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see you point; but not even 200 years ago the people couldn’t imagine most people working in other “industries” than agriculture.

Historically, most people worked in agriculture. (I’m not sure of the percentage, but it was >80% IIRC, but we can take a low estimate at 50%).

Nowadays less than 5% of the world population works in agriculture, due to increases in automation (machinery that can plow and harvest), and better understanding of the process (more efficient use of land).

While some of that turned out to be bad for the environment (who knew biodiversity is good, actually?), it did free up most of the population to do other things.

I hope it’s not “AI” that will automate the future (because of the huge energy costs to the environment), but automation more generally could help us free more time for passionate pursuits.

Jobs like software engineer didn’t even exist a century ago, and who knows what kind of new jobs will be created in the next 100?

[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That’s already been going to the wrong people for decades now.

The least drastic solution would be something like UBI, where a lot of people would be miserable, but at least will be able to put food on the table. (In case you’ve seen The Expanse series, I imagine that something like the part where Bobbie asks for directions on Earth).

A more drastic solution would be to not tie the worth of people to the amount of work they do or the amount of wealth they have.

[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Also, this recent classic: I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again was really illuminating.

[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty much, yeah.

I’d recommend using two physical drives (SSD/HDD) instead of two partitions if you can, because windows update sometimes messes with the bootloader. But most laptops only have one drive so that’s not always possible.

Do keep in mind that formatting a drive (e.g. to split it in partitions) will erase all the data, so make sure you have backups!

[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 1 week ago (6 children)

In the last few years, Valve (company behind the popular Steam PC games store) has made huuuge efforts in making most games work well on Linux, because the Steam Deck console that they sell runs on Linux, and the compatibility layer they made is called Proton.

To check what games work well on Linux you should look in the ProtonDB.

If there are games that only work on Windows, you could do dual booting.

Ah yes, that’s the difference. Thanks!

[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

But then they’re drinking irradiated water, no?

Unless it’s really easy to remove the radiation safely, this doesn’t seem like the right solution.

[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was new to me too, but a (code) forge is essentially a VCS server with stuff like a wiki and issue tracking. So think GitLab, GoGS/Gitea/Forgejo, BitBucket and all the others.

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